Below is a list of presentations that will be given during the two day conference of ICSPI (November 13th & 14th, 2007). To view a presentations outline; click on the presentations title.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

7:00
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8:00
Registration
&
Continental Breakfast
8:00
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8:15
Opening Remarks:
Dr. Magdy Hanna
Conference Chair
8:15
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9:15
Keynote:
Where did all the process improvement go?
Michael West
  SPI
Quality Management
CMM/CMMI Measurements Project Management
9:30
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10:30
When The Villagers Stormed The Castle: A Tale Of Our Process Improvement Journey
Sue Carroll & Shari Forvendel
SAS Institute Inc.
Change Leadership Toolbox: More than Just a Hammer
Julie Thomas
McKesson Corporation
Implementing CMMI with a Service Perspective Prior to the Service Model
Clyneice Chaney
Project Performance Corporation
A Case Study In Implementing An Organizational Process To Manage Project Status Through Metrics
Marty Safirstein & Feno Monaco
Allstate Insurance
ITIL: A Foundation for Project Success
Alan S. Koch, PMP
ASK Process, Inc.
10:45
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11:45
How Not to Have a Check in the Box Mentality
Dianne Turner
Project Performance Corporation
A Process for Ensuring Integrity of Releases
Joe Levens
Wolters Kluwer
Support the CMMI initiatives with well designed measurement constructs
Agnes E. Nanu
Booz Allen Hamilton
Help IT Demonstrate its Value: Measurement for Performance and Value
Clyneice Chaney
Project Performance Corporation
Project Management & Estimation; A Practical Approach, not a “Wiz kid” One
Charles Schiano
Avaya
11:45
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12:30
Visit Exhibit
&
Vendor Presentations
12:30
-
1:30
Lunch
&
Discussion Groups
  SPI Quality
Management
CMM/CMMI Measurements Lean Approaches
1:30
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2:30
Best Practices for Identifying Requirements Errors and Improving Software Project Success
Dr. Joe Marasco
Ravenflow
A Software Development Process to Successfully Implement COTS Enhancements
Charles Schiano
Avaya
Developing a CMMI compliant Estimation approach
Clyneice Chaney
Project Performance Corporation
Using Six Sigma, A real Case
Gloriana Jiménez Chaverri
Exactus de Costa Rica
Lean Risk Management
Richard Bollinger
Natural SPI, Inc.
2:45
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3:45
Traceability: A Proposal for a Scalable Approach, Agile To Formal
Thomas M. Cagley Jr.
David Consulting Group
A day In The Life Of A Business Quality Assurance Manager For A Level 5 Software Services Organization of Quality
Nikhil Gupta
Quantifying Risk Management Approaches in CMMI Level-3 Company
Cenkler Yakin
STM
A Case Study on Implementing an Organizational Measurement Program
Cheryl Saar & Feno Monaco
Allstate Insurance
A Case Study in Globally-Distributed Lean Software Development
Jerry Berntsen
Honeywell Aerospace Software CoE
4:00
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5:00
A Case Study in the Design and Deployment of a Process System for a Large Aerospace Operation
Jerry Berntsen
Honeywell Aerospace Software CoE
Changing Organizations: Getting out of the Delta into the Future!
Clyneice Chaney
Project Performance Corporation
Audit Stepping Stones: A Graduated Approach to Introducing CMMI Process and Product Quality Assurance
Margo Rice
Project Performance Corporation
Choose your measures wisely: A Case Study using GQ(I)M
Marty Safirstein
Application of Lean tenets in various Software life-cycle models
Nikhil Gupta
Wipro Technologies
5:00
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6:30
Conference Reception

 

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
7:00
-
8:00
Registration
&
Continental Breakfast
8:00
-
8:15
Opening Remarks:
Dr. Magdy Hanna
Conference Chair
8:15
-
9:15
Keynote:
The Ideal Software Project
Watts Humphrey
SPI
Quality Management I
CMM/CMMI
Quality
Management II
Agile Approaches
9:30
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10:30
FEATURE
PRESENTATION

Process QA: Learning about Collaboration From the Agile Methods

Alan S. Koch
ASK Process, Inc.
Engineering Quality – Asking the Right Questions at the Right Time
Chris Hetzler
Appolis

Is Your Crystal Ball Foggy? A Practical Framework for Deploying Predictive Models
Jeff Amspaugh, Dale Crawford & Jeff Bridgman
Thriving in a Diverse Environment Through Technology Change Management
Barbara Dreon
Northrop Grumman Corporation

eXtreme Lessons Learned from eXtreme Programming
Trevor Paradis
Stelligent Incorporated
10:45
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11:45
One NASA: Sharing Knowledge through an Agency-wide Process Asset Library (PAL)
Baraka J. Truss
NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center
FEATURE
PRESENTATION

How to Design a World Class Quality Assurance Team

Iris C. Trout
Bloomberg, lp
Roadmap for Effective Implementation of the CMMI
Diane M. Burwick
Business Process Solutions
Accelerating Delivery of Reliable Software Solutions: How Quantified Software Development Optimizes Software Production
Burke Cox
Stelligent Incorporated
Agile Software Development in a Staged-Gate Environment
Lean Software Development

Don Opperthauser
AgileTek LLC
11:45
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12:30
Visit Exhibit
&
Vendor Presentations
12:30
-
1:30
Lunch
&
Discussion Groups
1:30
-
2:30
Holistic Defect Management
Sudhir Pai
&
Upendra Wagh
Me Facilitate the Session: Fundamentals of Meeting Facilitation
Clyneice Chaney
Project Performance Corporation
Communication and Assessment Tools: Ensure a Rapid, Successful CMMI Implementation
Margo Rice
Project Performance Corporation
Avoiding Shock Therapy: A Case Study in Managing Directional Changes
Thomas Cutting, PMP
Keane, Inc.

Agile Principles Applied to Software Process Development
Mary Behnke
Raytheon Missle Systems
2:45
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3:45
FEATURE
PRESENTATION

Software Process Improvement's Dirty Little Secret

Robin Goldsmith, JD

GoPro Management
Beyond Agile: What else can you do to make development more efficient?
Ido Ben-Moshe
BMC Software
America’s Next Top Model: CMMI (CMMI best practices)
Stephen Gristock
JP MorganChase

Requirement Instability: Causes, Symptoms, and Cures
Dan Tucker
Booz Allen Hamilton

Test Team Integration in Large-Scale Scrum Implementations
Shaun Bradshaw
Questcon Technologies
4:00
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5:00
The Software Process Improvement Open Forum